[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Age of the Nandas and Mauryas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952) › c17 # Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c17: Chapter VI—Aśoka and his successors Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c17 - **Language:** English ### Chapter VI—Aśoka and his successors ### [c17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.1) \*Inscriptions of Aśoka :\* ### [c17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.2) Henning, W. B : The Aramaic Inscriptions of Aśoka found in Lampaka, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, XIII, pt. 1, pp 80.—88. ### [c17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.3) Hultzsch : Inscriptions of Aśoka (Oxford, 1925). ### [c17.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.4) Sahni, Dayaram : The Yeṛṛaguḍi Rock edicts of Aśoka ASI. Annual Report, 1928-29 pp. 161-7. ### [c17.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.5) Senart E., : The Inscriptions of Piyadasi, Eng. Tr. by G. A. Grierson, IA. 1890-92. ### [c17.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.6) The Gāvimaṭh and Pālkiguṇḍu inscriptions of Aśoka (Hyderabad Archaeological Series, No. 10, 1932). ### [c17.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.7) \*Literary Sources :\* ### [c17.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.8) Divyāvadāna, Ed. E. B. Cowell and R. A. Neil (Cambridge, 1886). ### [c17.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.9) Dipavamsa Ed. and Tr. H. Oldenberg, (London, 1879). ### [c17.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.10) Hiuen-Tsang—Beal, Buddhist records of the Western World, (London, 1884). ### [c17.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.11) Watters—On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, (London 1904—5). ### [c17.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.12) Mahāvamsa Ed. Geiger (London, 1908), Tr. by same (London, 1912) ### [c17.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.13) Mahābhāshya ed. Kielhorn, (Bombay, 1880-5) ### [c17.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.14) Rājatarangiṇī Ed. Stein, (Bombay 1892), Trans. by same (Westminster 1900). ### [c17.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.15) Tāranātha : German Trans. by Schiefner—Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien (St. Petersburg, 1869). ### [c17.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.16) \*Modern Works :\* ### [c17.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.17) Burnouf E., : Introduction a L'histoire du Buddhisme Indien (Paris, 1876). ### [c17.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.18) Davids, T. W. Rhyes : Buddhist India, (London, 1903). ### [c17.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.19) Dikshitar, V. R. R. : The Mauryan Polity, (Madras, 1932) ### [c17.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.20) Franke : Pali und Sanskrit (Strassburg, 1902). ### [c17.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.21) Hardy Edmund : Konig Asoka, (Mainz, 1913). ### [c17.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.22) Lassen Christian, Indische Alterthumskunde (pp. 224-88) II (Leipzig, 1874). ### [c17.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.23) Levi, Sylvain : Le Nepal—3 vols. (Paris, 1905-8). Macphail, J. M., Asoka, (Heritage of India Series, Calcutta, n.d.) Marshall and Foucher : Monuments of Sanchi 3 vols. (Calcutta, 1941). Mookerji, R. K. : Asoka, (London, 1928). Monahan : The early history of Bengal (Oxford, 1925) Przyluski, J : La Legende de L'empereur Acoka (Paris 1923). Smith V. A. : Aśoka (Oxford, 1920). Vallée Poussin, L. de : L'Inde aux temps des Mauryas (Paris, 1930) ### [c17.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.24) \*Asoka and Khotan\* ### [c17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17.25) Beal: Buddhist Records of the Western World (above). Beal : Life of Hiuen-Tsang, p. 203. (London, 1914) Konow Sten : Khotan Studies, JRAS, 1914, pp. 344 ff. Rockhill : Life of the Buddha—Ch. VIII (Trubner's Oriental Series.) Stein, Sir Aurel : Ancient Khotan i. pp. 156-166; 368 (Oxford, 1907). ## Cites (5) - [Rājataraṅgiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini) — Kalhaṇa, Sanskrit - [Divyāvadāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.avadanasamgraha.divyavadana) — Sanskrit - [Dīpavaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.dipavamsa) — Pāli - [Aśoka](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.asoka) - [Mahāvaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.mahavamsa) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1952.c17) · Pramāṇa